OrganicIndependence@lemm.eetoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: The CDC estimates that 5 percent of all hospital admissions result in a healthcare-associated infection, culminating in approximately 722,000 infections and 75,000 deaths each yearEnglish
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1 year agoIf you’re in the US (it is the cdc) you can look up healthcare acquired infection rates on the CMS website.
There is also this: https://www.hospitalsafetygrade.org/. It gives a letter grade for hospitals using some of that cms data and some other required / optional metrics.
Mind you, the data sets provided by CMS are usually 2 years old and the hospitals may have made improvements since that data. Reimbursement is tied to those rates being lower (sort of)
Thanks for the assist!